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Karl Schembri
The Nationalist Party’s internet news website, maltarightnow.com, is offline, a mere seven months since it was launched.
The website has been down for the last two weeks after a substantial marketing drive on street billboards with massive photos of editor Karl Stagno Navarra and on television promoting the online news service.
Instead of the last minute updates, a message greets visitors informing them that “there is a problem with the page” and that the page “cannot be displayed”.
This puts the PN’s news website at par with the Labour Party’s maltastar.com, which has been offline for more than four months after thousands of liri in donations were raised to fund the site.
The MLP portal maltastar.com closed down soon after its editor Joseph Muscat was elected to the European Parliament on a Labour ticket.
Contacted Friday, Stagno Navarra said there was “a big problem with the server” that was affecting all of the PN’s websites. In fact, even pn.org.mt and media.link.com.mt – two other websites of the PN – are also offline.
“We’re trying to solve this problem with our server,” Stagno Navarra said. “There seems to be a complicated technical problem which our technicians are trying to solve. I’m not an expert so I can’t really explain what’s happening. It seems that Maltese fonts are conflicting with the software, but we should be online again very soon.”
The editor said his website was a resounding success in its first months of existence.
“We had thousands of hits and we intend to upgrade our service,” Stagno Navarra said. “We’re working on a more attractive design and eventually we will have bilingual news reports.”
He also said there were still vacancies for part-time reporters to help him with the site.
karl@newsworksltd.com
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